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When first starting a game, what "always visible" resources are the most important to start with?
Gold?
Silver?
Wheat?
Horses?
Gems?
others?
Gold?
Silver?
Wheat?
Horses?
Gems?
others?
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What? No Bananas option?!
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Originally posted by LordShiva
What? No Bananas option?!
I declare this poll null and void.
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Well strictly speaking, the food resource are a must, but since those are pretty much a given, I really like seeing GOLD somewhere close.
Horses are no longer always visible.Comment
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Horses are not visible at start (they were, but the first patch changed it). They require Animal Husbandry.
If you have a site w/lots of hills (production), having a bonus food resource or two is great, allowing you to utilize those hills and still grow. If you have a lot of flat land around your capital, something like cows that gets a production boost can be huge.
Starting on the coast with seafood resources (especially if you start with Fishing) is really nice.
Gold is a beautiful thing
It can do incredible things for your economy.
Silver... pretty much means you're stuck up in the tundra (in my experience). That's not generally a good thing. The resource itself is fine, of course.
I generally like to see one of the animal resources (cows/pigs/sheep) because I typically research AH early anyway (to see horses, and you can get to writing from there). Agriculture is annoyingly expensive in the early going and farms take a long time to build. Gold is fantastic, provided you have some food too.
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I like to see food resources the best. (corn, wheat, pigs, cows, rice) Ill even count fish-based food tiles in that. Food is vitally important to growing your city. The quicker I can get a few people in my city - the faster they can begin working on other stuff.
Gold is second since mining is halfway to bronze working - and that is usually a tech that I get quickly. Provides lots of money.Early to rise, Early to bed.
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Thanks for the responses guys!Comment
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Whilst definitely not neccessary, I find it is always a great bonus to start with elephants, especially if you don't have horses.
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I really like to see cows. Good food and production.
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luxury: think in the long term wayI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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gold, silver, gems make me salivate.... But then again so does A LOT of seafood in my radius--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Gold is probably the best, although elephants tend to cluster, making them a great choice as well.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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